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Plans for Huge Wind Turbines
Jolt Kansans

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Jim CarltonStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Oct. 14, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan. -- When an energy company approached Jane Koger about putting some wind turbines on her ranch, she was elated. The fourth-generation Kansan was familiar with wind energy: Some years before, she had erected an 84-foot-high windmill on her property near here to provide all of her electricity needs.

But when she later discovered the company planned to build dozens of turbines more than 300 feet high for miles around, she was appalled -- so much so, she says, that she returned her $500 retainer check. She...